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A polished studio concept art board — a single composite page that reads as a high-end pre-production pitch deck for an animated short. NOT a vintage pencil sketch, NOT a finished movie frame, but a polished concept page in the visual treatment described below. Layout: TOP HEADER (left): bold modern display typography for the title "The Celestial Compass", with a small stylised glyph next to it (sparkle, comet, or motif matching the visual treatment). Below in smaller crisp print: "OPENING SEQUENCE • DRAFT • 3D CARTOON". TOP HEADER (right): a tidy "CHARACTER LINEUP" sub-heading set in the same typography. CENTER GRID: 5 numbered storyboard panels in a 3-column grid. Each panel is a softly rounded card with a thin warm-grey border and a delicate drop shadow (studio pre-prod board look). Inside every panel: a finished miniature of the action — rendered in the visual treatment described below. Top-left of each panel a small bold numbered tab (01, 02, 03…) and bottom-right an "X.Xs" timing tab — both set in clean modern typography (NOT hand-lettering). Panels: Panel 01 (12s): Rain-lashed attic at night with arched glass window and stacks of dusty canvases leaning against wooden beams. Wide eye-level shot framing the cluttered space. Moonlit storm lig... Panel 02 (12s): Rain-lashed attic interior with wooden beams and scattered canvases. Medium eye-level shot centered on Lyra touching the golden compass. Soft cyan light from the artifact illumi... Panel 03 (12s): Rain-lashed attic with floating holographic islands filling the space. Wide low-angle shot showing Kai frozen at the top of the stairs flashlight in hand staring upward. Dramati... Panel 04 (12s): Attic interior with spinning golden compass emitting violent wind. Close-up eye-level on the device and Lyra's reaching hand. Swirling blue vortex tears open behind it scatterin... Panel 05 (12s): Lush floating sky island above endless white clouds under brilliant blue sky. Wide low-angle shot of Lyra and Kai tumbling onto glowing green grass with towering ruins in distan... RIGHT SIDEBAR (about 22% of page width): character model sheets. For each character below, render 3-4 polished turnaround sketches — front view, three-quarter view, profile, and a dynamic action pose — each in the visual treatment described below. Character name set in crisp modern typography above each set: Lyra — A 14-year-old girl with messy auburn hair, wearing aviator goggles pushed up on her forehead and a leather-trimmed utility jacket. She ha... Kai — A 14-year-old boy with short dark hair, wearing an olive jacket and practical boots while holding a flashlight. He has olive skin, alert ... Nixi — A small agile woodland creature with sleek fur, large expressive eyes, luminous ears, and bioluminescent cyan markings along its body. It... BOTTOM STRIP: a horizontal timeline ruler with seconds markings (0, 5, 10, 15… up to total duration), tick marks aligned to the panel durations above — clean vector look, not hand-drawn. Below the ruler, a tidy notes row: STORY / FLOW • ANIMATION • TIMING & RHYTHM • CAMERA — each with 2-3 short polished bullet points in crisp typography (you can invent plausible production notes from the story). VISUAL TREATMENT FOR PANELS AND CHARACTER LINEUP (THIS IS THE CRITICAL PART): polished pre-production concept render in the "3D Cartoon" visual treatment — apply that style as the dominant aesthetic across every panel and character thumbnail consistently. Keep the studio mood-board feel: crisp typography, soft card shadows, no aged-paper or pencil-sketch look, no mixed styles. OVERALL STYLE: high-end studio mood-board page with the visual treatment above carried through every panel and every character render consistently. Clean modern typography, soft drop shadows on cards, occasional smooth-gradient accents in the margins (sparkles, stars, arrows). NO aged-paper look, NO hand-pencil sketches, NO mixed styles — every miniature on this page is rendered in the same single visual treatment described above. This is a polished pre-production concept page, finished enough to pitch in a studio review meeting.